If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...

Victorian fashion became notorious for its mourning etiquette, which included elaborate rituals, strict dressing rules, and ...

Now streaming on Netflix. According to Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, an author and expert in women’s history in the United States, psychiatrists during the Victorian era—or "alienists" as they were ...

And although she doesn't necessarily romanticize the Victorian era — "obviously things are better now socially, politically, all that stuff," she said — D'Incecco is able to travel back in ...

In the Victorian era, women's wealth and dowry determined who they should marry. Through marriage, the husband would receive the dowry, making the woman dependent on the husband. Listen to this ...

Victoria feminists were asked to send answers to “why am I a spinster?” into a magazine - here’s what happened… Spinster. What does that word mean in 2019? Well, the Oxford Dictionary ...

A pioneer in many fields she challenged expectations of women during the Victorian era. Born in Llangrannog 1839 as Sarah Jane Rees, she became one of Wales' most popular poets and also worked as ...